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FOUNTAINHEAD is an ambient music project and the creative inspiration of well known ambient music composer Robert Scott Thompson. This recording, just under 70 minutes in duration, features a beautiful collection of nine tracks of classical ambient music. The title track is 18 minutes long and envelopes the listener in a floating, elegant, sonic reverie. Other tracks feature propulsive, yet subtle, percussion. A wonderfully balanced album which flows together perfectly in its uniquely defined sound space. One of the basic tenets of classical ambient music is that it can be listened to on a number of levels, from rapt attention to the casual perception of the music as background sound. At each level of listening awareness different qualities and attributes of the music are revealed. This aspect, combined with the exquisite composition of the music itself, creates a CD that has attracted considerable response from radio audiences and private listeners alike. CLOUD COVER is a fine addition to our growing catalog of ambient music and will find a permanent place in the collections of all ambient music connoisseurs. |
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Fountainhead:
Cloud Cover
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CD - $11.95
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Robert Scott
Thompson - 1999
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| A superb album by a music visionary!! |
| Under the guise of Fountainhead, Robert Scott Thompson has delivered a fabulous, beautiful album of (largely) drone based ambience. Brian Eno and Thomas Koner are triangulation points for this disc, but Thompson is no-one's acolyte in this strongly individual release which further brings together his classical ambient and avant-garde computer compositional personae. |
| The album as a whole has an ethereal majesty, and Thompson demonstrates a masterful placement of elements within tracks and the sequencing of the whole disk. The broad sources for his sounds adds an extra dimension to what is fascinating ambience. Whether this is a 98 or 99 release, it will deservedly make it onto many 'best of …' lists, and underscores his growing reputation in the world of ambience. And, oh yes, I like it alot! |
| Fountainhead is the pseudonym of ambient composer Robert Scott Thompson who has been involved in some of the more interesting releases as of late, primarily The Silent Shore, Frontier and The Ambient Eclipse (on Oasis/Mirage). With RST you get a return to classic ambient music, long stretches of drawn out soundscapes which allow the listener time to internalize their own thought processes. It's not something that can be said lightly but in Robert Scott Thompson you have the equivalent of a Steve Roach or even Brian Eno to a degree, statements I have made in the past and I still agree with. The quality of his work is consistently high. I've raved about RST enough in the past, and I feel like I 'm repeating myself. Check out his works on Oasis or Aucourant, you won't be disappointed. I think his best is yet to come but rest assured based on his past outputs I am not one to complain. This is about as good as it gets with ambient music, a form of music I'm very partial to. Chances are that you probably won't find his works in the shops, especially if you live in Australia but check out the web sites for more info and order direct from the man himself. Highly recommended. |
| Cloud Cover is a bit less experimental and more ethereal than Thompson's recent work under his own name, but in much the same vein. Fans of the quiter moments on The Silent Shore will definitely find a home here, as will anyone with a taste for layered, floating ambient atmospheres. |
| Cloud Cover features the creative works of Robert Scott Thompson and weighs in with more than 70 minutes of high-quality ambient music. The album is slightly more spacey than some of his other releases and includes some very subtle, but effective percussion elements thrown into the mix. The music generally floats through elegant phases of mellow sounds and draws the listener into his web of beautiful space music. Highly recommended for all connoisseurs of space music. |
| Dreamy synthetic atmospheres fused with differential minimalist drone, sub-melody and multi-percussion are some of the elements used by Robert Scott Thompson in this classical ambient release, "Cloud Cover"; it is an excellent addtition and 'must have' to the ambient music enthusiasts collection or those who enjoy minimalist drone with exotic eastern-edge rhythms. |
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